Facing for walls, &amp;c.



No. 655,454. Patented Aug. 7, I900.

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No. 655.454. Patented Aug; 7, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (drricE.

EMIL PRUss, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

FACING FOR WALLS, ac.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,454, dated August 7, 1900. Application filed llovember 24,1899. Serial no. 738g137i (NomodeL To all whmn it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, EMIL PRi'Iss, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at 34 Kothenerst-rasse, Berlin,- in the Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to the Facing of Walls and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the facing of walls according to which the facing blocks or surfaces, by means of a skeleton frame or stiffening network suitably anchored or secured in 'the wall to be faced, are erected separately so that it will not be necessary during the erection of the main wall to provide specially for the anchoring or securing of the facingsurface or to fix each facing stone or block separately to the main Wall in the manner heretofore adopted in connection with facings of boards, slates, slabs, tiles, or the like.

In erecting a building in accordance with this improved method of facing the first thing to be done is to complete the structure and roof the same in without any special preparation for the facing of the walls. Thereupon the facing material, which has meanwhile been delivered at the place where the building is being erected, is applied by the aid of a skeleton frame.

By the improved method I am able to provide in a simple manner a ventilating-space between the wall and its facing, which is of particular importance in cases where strong walls are erected for non-conduction purposes or for other architectural reasons and not for giving the necessary support and stability to upper floors. Obviously the improved method may be applied not only in connection with wall-facings, vstrictly speaking, but also in connection with protective walls or linings where an isolating air-space is left between the main walls and their facings. Furthermore, in the erection of the skeleton frame it is entirely immaterial Whether special facing stones or tiles or any other convenient materials are utilized. For this reason also the adoption of this improved method is not limited to new building constructions, but may with equal facility be applied to old buildings when required to provide a new face or an extra protection against the influence of the weather, and in such case no' expensive ing advantageously consists of a system of vertically and horizontally arranged ribs, the latter of which--21 e., the horizontal ribs are stretched in front of the former in a different plane. by barbed rods secured or inclosed in the horizontal or vertical joints of the main wall. Thus the vertical bands form at the same time a guide to the accurate alinement of the joints. As the abutting joints are not running without interruption from the top to the bottom of the wall the vertical strips seem to produce some difficulty regarding the filling of the network. This disadvantage may, however, easily be turned into an advantage by replacing quarter-facings, where the vertical stifiening-strips do not admit of this, by one-eighth facings and then filling the space at the rear thereof with mortar.

So-called half and quarter facings have heretofore generally been used, but quarters and eighths will be found sufficient in connection with the improved method, so that the weights to be lifted are considerably less.

The procedure is as follows: First, the stifiening ribs or strips are suitably anchored or secured in the wall by means of hooks, rods, or the like. After having in this manner covered a certain area with the stiffening-net work or skeleton frame the latter is filled in the ordinary manner.

The method of facing by the aid of a system of horizontal and vertical strips disposed The stiffening-bands are held in different planes is shown in the accomstructure of wooden posts faced so as to form a.

light but solid garden-wall.

In the drawings, a designates the horizontal stiffening-strips, and Z) the vertical strips.

They are made of hoop-iron arranged with the broad sidesat right angles to the wall, so

as to allow them to be embedded in the joints. The anchoring of the hoop-iron to the wall is advantageously effected by'looping the ends thereof and engaging them in the anchoring bars or rods.

In order to face a quarter-partition wall on both sides, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, stiffening-network is required to be stretched on each side of such wall. If desired, two vertical branches may be bent by their upper ends around bolts projecting from the sides of such wall, while the lower end of the strips may be embedded in concrete foundations.

By facing a structure of posts, girders, and stays on its outer side a light garden-wall may be made which from the exterior looks like a massive brick wall. This construction is indicated in Figs. 5 and 6.

What I claim is V 1. In combination in a facing for walls and 'for securing some of said bars or bands to a suitable support, substantially as described Signed this 9th dayof November, 1899, at

Berlin, Germany. I

EMIL Panes.

Witnesses:

WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY HAsPER. 

